San Cristóbal

San Cristóbal

Lucas is visiting his sister on a remote island in southern Chile before moving abroad. An unlikely romance grows when he meets Antonio, a struggling young fisherman. The intimacy they share makes them navigate towards a new horizon and to a different stage of their adulthood.

The Color of Time

The Color of Time

James Franco, Mila Kunis, Jessica Chastain, and Zach Braff star in this dramatic and inventive look at the life and work of iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C.K. Williams. Williams (Franco) has a beautiful, adoring wife (Kunis) and a young son. But as he prepares for a reading in New York City and struggles to create new work, he is haunted by memories of his past—from his first sexual encounter to a later tragic loss. An ensemble of 12 directors work with a star-studded cast to weave together this moving and unique story of a complex man and the relationships that defined him.

Niagara

Niágara

Estranged siblings Genevieve and Stephen are caught in a their father's cabin during a thunderstorm, emptying it from what it used to be. The electricity fails and they slowly find the calm that they were looking for.

The Ducks Migration

La Migración de los Patos

Two close family friends, Jeremy and Alphonse, spend a few weeks together in Jeremy’s house in Brooklyn. Jeremy is confused about his understanding of the friendship, while obsessed with the ducks in the Prospect Park’s lake and finishing a school paper about their migration. Alphonse likes to ride bicycles and doesn’t want to leave town. The ducks inevitably leave, Alphonse goes back to Paris, and Jeremy stays in his house, but all of them depart to discover something new.

Brussels

Bruselas

Gaspar is back in New York working for a couple of days, caught between the taxis and his faults in French. He is supposed to have lunch with his father right before flying back to Brussels. They have not seen each other for a few years now. Something tells him it is wrong. Something tells him it is right. Trying to find ways to evade the silence, Gaspar will realize what is happening between them.

My New Song is Coming Along Great

Mi Nueva Canción Está Quedando Genial

Joe is sixteen years old. He is learning how to play the piano and sometimes he hangs out with his good friend Jimmy. He was born in Maine, but now he lives in Boston. He lived in several foster homes, but his dads, Dean and Joe, adopted him three years ago. Now he is mostly worried about the lyrics for his new song.

Away

Lejos

Diego comes for the first time to New York in the beginning of the winter. Disoriented between the people in the streets, with his Super8 camera in his hands, he tries to find his memories from those other winters, shared in the woods, in another country, with the man he loved.

The Men and the River

Los Hombres y el Río

Six men. The river. A father goes hiking with his son, a walk just for the Sunday. It’s the last time they’re going to do it. Two men are on a bridge over the river. It’s early morning, it’s cold. One of them won’t be able to see the other one anymore. There’s none on the street but them and their tears. Two brothers are quickly going to the airport. The highway, next to, under and over the river. One of them is leaving Chile because his family doesn’t want him to stay. The other one had the unpleasant task of taking him there. Farewells, sorrows and the water.

Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo

Omar was born in Santiago, Chile. As a passionate cinephile with a deep interest in film studies and research, he has been a recipient of both the Film Promotion and Art Promotion Funds from the Government of Chile. In 2014 he received his Master in Fine Arts degree in New York University’s Graduate Film Program, which he attended with scholarships from the Fulbright Program, Chile’s Ministry of Education and Tisch School of the Arts.

Living between Santiago and Brooklyn, Omar makes films that have been screened in numerous film festivals worldwide. In 2012 he directed “On learning on a friend’s illness”, a segment featuring Academy Award® Nominee James Franco and Zach Braff, part of the feature film “The Color of Time”, that premiered at the Rome Film Festival 2012 and that had a theatrical release in the US in 2014.

His last short film, “San Cristóbal”, won the Teddy Award at the Berlinale 2015. He is developing a feature version, thanks to the support of a Development Fund given by the Ibermedia Program, among other development initiatives.

He is a founding partner of Cinestación, a Santiago-based production company that makes highly creative auteur cinema from Chile and the region, where he writes and directs his works and collaborates with other people’s. He is a serial tea drinker who does not want to join Instagram.